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Tetherow Golf Club
Bend, OR 97702
(866) 948-CLUB (2582)
Pricing: $101 - $150
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Tetherow is southwest of Bend, routed through a future housing development off Century Drive, west of exit 139 of the Bend Freeway. The course is billed as a heathland course, which is essentially a links course not on the ocean, and was designed by David McClay Kidd who did Bandon Dunes, and more recently the Castle Course in St Andrews. Having played the Castle and Bandon, this one resembles the Castle a bit more with Kidd taking more license with his architectural wit and creative nature than using the land as was done with Bandon. The course is routed over an area that was burned out by a forest fire some time ago, but spared a few trees which were incorporated into the layout, and come into play on a number of the holes. Some of the holes seem a bit quirky or tricked up and contrived, with heavy mounding and tall grasses through the fairways. The first time you play it, you're wondering on the tee how to play the hole, and I guess that's what took some off the course for me with all the visual intimidation, which end up being not all that treacherous when you get out in the fairway. The greens seem a bit over the top with slopes, ledges, undulations, and drop offs, not to mention fast and hard, but maybe because the course just opened recently. Just not my cup of tee, but very well maintained and done with nice views of the Cascades and the high desert area around Bend.
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Posted by: Chesley
Dec 6th, 2010
Tetherow is a really tough course in that it requires a solid all around game and strategy for success. The fescue fairways and greens take some getting used to, especially the greens which are severely undulating and can be tough to hold.
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Posted by: LNewsome
Sep 20th, 2010
It was a wild ride, packed with challenge, variety, great greens and options galore. It's true that there are some greens and pin placements that are virtually impossilbe to attack, but overall the course is a joy to play. Since it was developed to be a private residential area it does have one really "eyesore" house on the property, but because everything is so depressed, they are allowing outside play. We paid $140 for the first round and $80 for a replay. We had a great forecaddie who is the golf coach at a local high school and he made our day memorable and fun. Well worth it!!! We also played 36 at Crosswater and completed our trip with the Pronghorn-Nicklaus course. We got a great deal at Sunriver for the Crosswater course and felt we were ripped off a little at Pronghorn, but overall our 3 day trip there was awesome. Highly recommend it......... and the weather is a lot more dependable than Bandon.
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Posted by: EvanH
Apr 10th, 2010
Found the golf course to be a little too penal for my liking, as an 18 handicap. Beautiful setting and routing through the burned out brush, made for a very unusual, surreal feel to it, but just too tricked up, a bit unnatural. Lots of high grasses bordering the fairways, large greens, well guarded, with severe undulation. Really a shotmaker's style of layout where placement is more important than distance, but it's hard to know that the first time, even though you need to take a forecaddie. Always the problem for me when taking a caddie, with my game I have no idea where the ball is going, and here's this caddie telling me where to hit it! There are some fun holes here, a couple of the par threes are very cool, it's a beautiful setting, and the Scottish elements to the course, like the ability to run the ball up to the green, and the bunkering, tall grasses were a nice touch.
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Posted by: JeremyN
Nov 7th, 2009
Tetherow has the feel of a modern track, with wide fairways and large, undulating greens. Visually, it’s surely stimulating with contrasts between grass, sand, and high-desert brush. Numerous fairways are split by bunkers and grassy humps, hollows, and swales. A number of tees are elevated, and taking a confident rip with a driver is a truly thrilling experience on most holes, especially given the course’s 3,600-foot altitude. If your tee shot misses one of those wide corridors, the thickness of the brush on all sides makes it difficult to find your ball, let alone recover for a decent score. The greens are all kinds of shapes and contours, and the net area for pin placements is limited by the severe slopes and shelves the greens are on. Not a walkable course, enjoyable and very different, you may not love it, but it was certainly an experience.
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